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<span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Dear friends, </span><div style="line-height: 17.27272605895996px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">it is with a deep sorrow that I inform you the loss of a young and great researcher, Alexandre Peixoto. He died yesterday after an accident when rafting in Tres Rios, state of Rio. Besides his extraordinary work on genetic entomology, including sandflies, he was a very good friend. </div><div style="line-height: 17.27272605895996px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">claude (Primez)</div><div style="line-height: 17.27272605895996px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(<span style="background-color: rgb(243, 247, 253); font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">claude.pirmez@gmail.com)f</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(243, 247, 253);"><font color="#2a2a2a" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;"><br></span></font></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(243, 247, 253);"><font color="#2a2a2a" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">Science has tragically lost one of its most </span><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.453125px;">brilliant</span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;"> medical entomologists. Alexandre was a Howard Hughes research fellow and his group in the Instituto Oswaldo Cruz in Rio was a world reference for </span><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.453125px;">genetical</span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;"> studies on insects of medical importance. His work with his students on sand flies </span><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 15.453125px;">revolutionized</span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;"> our concepts of the south american vectors of visceral leishmaniasis.</span></font></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(243, 247, 253);"><font color="#2a2a2a" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;"><br></span></font></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(243, 247, 253);"><font color="#2a2a2a" face="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 15.454545021057129px;">Jeffrey Shaw</span></font></span></div><div style="line-height: 17.27272605895996px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="line-height: 17.27272605895996px; color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div> </div></body>
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